A few days ago, I was riding a Friendship Heights-bound bus up Wisconsin, when I noticed these two guys that I frequently see standing in front of one of the shops on that street. Normally they just stand there and talk to their buddies (and I assume try to get people to come into their shop), but this day I noticed one of them stick their hand directly in a young woman’s face and wave it obnoxiously. The fact that she ducked down and kept her head down and kept walking showed me that she didn’t know these men and didn’t want to know them.

If the bus hadn’t kept moving up the street I would’ve opened up my window to tell them to leave her alone, but it was too far up the street immediately after that incident for them to hear me.

(I can’t remember what the intersecting street was, but I believe this was before reaching P Street.)

Submitted by Anonymous on 6/10/2010

Location: Wisconsin Avenue

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